HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

howfrontoage

10 karma · joined April 24, 2021

submissionscomments
howfrontoage··on Ursula Le Guin Books
Honestly sounds like an extreme form of communism.

One of the benefits of hierarchy is that decision comes with personal responsibility (skin in the game?). Diluting all responsibility onto the whole population mean no accountability and shadow power structures.

howfrontoage··on Ursula Le Guin Books
Indeed, due to the extreme conditions, social pressure and conditioning since a young age, they were free in name only.
howfrontoage··on Ursula Le Guin Books
Honestly I disagree they had anarchism. Seemed they had a sort of collectivism where they replaced some authority with "computers that hand out assignments" and pseudo-authority from the capital (Anares? I forgot).

It looked like an odd system where presumably you were free but conditions were so hars and social pressure so strong that you did what was required. Sweden in space desert.

howfrontoage··on A Policy of Activism in the Workplace Is Anti-Fellowship
Too much politics is the stuff that gets one fired. After a few iterations the calibration might be reached.
howfrontoage··on Ask HN: How to get back hacker's mentality and joy of coding
You are missing agency.

May try a retro computing project. Restore you old PC, code something in basic languages, on a very low powered machine. Exclude any potential revenue ideas from what you are doing.

howfrontoage··on Buying a PC with Dell: My journey into hell
How this got on the front page is a mistery.

Person orders wrong Dell, wastes Dell's time with support, a motherboard replacement (and a refund?).

All as a business expense (who want to pay taxes, right?)

The proceeds to lyric about it in 50 tweets.